How to Use herdsman in a Sentence

herdsman

noun
  • Fences and wooden buildings can be smashed and herdsmen put in fear of their lives.
    — National Geographic, 17 Feb. 2016
  • The kite rising sideways in the east is from Boötes the herdsman.
    — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2014
  • This was Archie, the young herdsman, getting ready for milking.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Arcturus is the brightest star in Boötes, the Herdsman.
    — Jesse Emspak, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Some states, such as Benue, have passed laws that ban herdsmen from grazing cattle on open land.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • Noah Lemaiyan -- a herdsman clad in a red and blue shawl -- lives on the outskirts of Amboseli.
    — CNN, 24 May 2021
  • The hiking trails are marked well; the main concern is to keep a respectful distance from the herdsmen.
    — Michael Hingston, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Outside, cattle graze across the rolling hills and the voices of herdsmen are a distant soundtrack.
    — Nokukhanya Musi, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2023
  • And all about are the goats with silky, long ears, whistled to order by herdsmen who make the sound pinching a leaf between their teeth.
    — Victoria Mather, A-LIST, 20 June 2018
  • Consider a pasture on which every herdsman may graze his cattle.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Boötes is often depicted as a herdsman, but its real value lies in its role as a guidepost.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Most of its stars instead became part of the constellation Boötes, the herdsman.
    — National Geographic, 1 Jan. 2018
  • Taiping, a former herdsman, now runs his own jerky factory and has more than one million followers.
    — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • More traditionally, Boötes is a herdsman or a plowman.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 8 May 2026
  • The alphorn is a long wooden instrument traditionally used by herdsmen in the Alps.
    — ABC News, 29 June 2026
  • The alphorn is a long wooden instrument traditionally used by herdsmen in the Alps.
    — Jez Fielder, Fortune, 30 June 2026
  • Probably the one that’s best known is the one about how Philomelus, a young, impoverished farmer and herdsman, struggled to push his plow through his fields.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Outside of the crater a similar drama continues in a more spread out manner with Masai herdsmen thrown into the mix.
    — Julian Harrison, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • From wading through large river crossings to watching the local herdsmen, Long fell in love with the country and communities along the route.
    — Ben Church, CNN, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Then, this afternoon, either Archie or Simon, the farm’s senior herdsman, will bring the cows back for the second milking.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Their secret leaked the first weekend in June when the other herdsman, Happy Mthabela, showed some of the stones to guests at a wedding.
    — New York Times, 4 July 2021
  • In Italy the transumanza proceeds along tratturi, lanes etched into the land by herdsmen, cows and other livestock over two millenniums.
    — Maria Russo, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The roads are often blocked by herdsmen on horseback wrapped in colorful, traditional blankets surrounded by hundreds of their shaggy sheep.
    — Alexandra Wexler, WSJ, 12 July 2017
  • Young men -- traditionally herdsmen -- wear full makeup, jewelry and their finest clothes and stand in line to await inspection by female onlookers.
    — Tim Spector, CNN, 5 July 2017
  • As freshwater bodies dry up or recede, pastoralists have to search more widely for water and grazing land, bringing them in conflict with other herdsmen doing the same.
    — Brahma Chellaney, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2014
  • The jihadist attacks may also be an attempt to further exploit tensions between Tuaregs and Fulani herdsmen over land.
    — Fox News, 28 Apr. 2018
  • Elsewhere were depictions of giraffes, elephants, and rhinos as well as people dancing, horsemen carrying spears and bows, and herdsmen tending cattle.
    — Aminatta Forna, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2024
  • An Arab legend saw Boötes as a herdsman to the Pole Star, while ancient Egyptians saw it as a Hippopotamus.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 8 May 2026
  • Angba, the herdsman in Xilin Gol, said by the first grade, many children haven't even properly learned their mother tongue yet, and adding another language would be a big burden.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 5 Sep. 2020
  • On one side are the ostensible good guys, a group of roving herdsmen who had fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War.
    — Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024

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